Central Ohio lawyer convicted on tax fraud charges

The Columbus Dispatch reports (http://bit.ly/Ife683 ) Aristotle R. Matsa of Worthington was convicted Friday in federal court in Columbus of the 22 counts he faced, including trying to persuade people to lie to a grand jury.

The 55-year-old could be sentenced to 108 years in prison.

The jury also found Matsa's 80-year-old mother guilty of lying to the grand jury that was investigating her son.

The newspaper reports that neither the defendant nor their attorneys would comment after the verdicts were announced.

IRS agents had found that, despite operating an architecture company and a law firm, Matsa paid only $107 in federal income taxes between 1986 and 2002.